Cooperative Agreement CA2024096

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) under the Public Transportation Innovation program (CFDA 20.530) provides $17,284,165.00 to Calstart, Inc., a national non-profit consortium focused on accelerating the growth of the clean transportation technology industry. The purpose of this project is to research and assess the barriers to adoption for zero-emission transit buses, encompassing the research, demonstration, and/or validation of zero-emission adoption-enabling technologies, workforce constraints, supply chain issues, and other factors hindering the industry's transition to zero-emission vehicles and infrastructure. Calstart will be conducting this research, innovating technologies and tools, and in some cases deploying and validating these with industry stakeholders such as transit agencies, state DOTs, OEMs, and component suppliers. The expected outcomes include Calstart submitting reports and providing presentations on technology deployments to the FTA and the transit industry nationally, which will help speed the adoption of zero-emission technologies by the intended beneficiaries, including transit agencies, OEMs, utilities, and infrastructure providers across the U.S.